Scarlett Johansson

In the mid-2000s, when gossip stories about twenty-something actresses behaving badly dominated headlines, Scarlett Johansson was nowhere to be found. Johansson was certainly one of the most respected...
Read More...

Mr. Turner is the film to beat at the upcoming London Film Critics' Circle Awards after landing seven nominations. The biopic of painter J.M.W. Turner is nominated for Film of the Year, British Film of the Year and Director of the Year for Mike Leigh, while Timothy Spall earns nods in the Actor of the Year and British Actor of the Year categories. Marion Bailey is also recognised for her supporting role.
Mr. Turner is closely followed by Birdman with six nominations. Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and Under the Skin all have five. They are all nominated for Film of the Year, alongside Whiplash, Nightcrawler and foreign language movies Ida and Leviathan.
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) and Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) join Spall in both male acting categories. Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) and Michael Keaton (Birdman) round out the Actor of the Year category, while Tom Hardy (Locke, The Drop) and Jack O'Connell (Unbroken, Starred Up) complete the British Actor of the Year nominees.
Julianne Moore has two nominations for best actress for her roles in Maps to the Stars and Still Alice. She will compete against Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night, Scarlett Johansson for Under the Skin and Essie Davis for horror movie The Babadook.
Emily Blunt (Into the Woods), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) will battle it out for the British Actress of the Year prize.
Other nominees for Director of the Year include Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman) and Richard Linklater (Boyhood).
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on 18 January (15).

George Clooney's wife has seen off competition from Taylor Swift and Scarlett Johansson to be named Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2014.
British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has topped the TV personality's annual list of influential people, with Walters likening her to timeless beauties including late British royal Diana, Princess of Wales and Jackie Kennedy.
Walters says, "What does it take to fascinate one of the most fascinating men in the world? She is known primarily through her spouse and while we know little about her we know a great deal about him and he has fascinated many women... Especially me. Amal Alamuddin, known now as Amal Clooney, is suddenly in that stratosphere that we reserve for the Jackie Os and the Princess Dis and Kate Middletons... That is everything she does, says or wears is officially fascinating."
Amal married the Hollywood actor in September (14) and has been propelled into the limelight since the nuptials.
Other names featured on Walters' list include Scarlett Johansson, Neil Patrick Harris, Oprah Winfrey and Taylor Swift.

The release of British actor-turned-director Andy Serkis' star-studded movie adaptation of The Jungle Book has been pushed back a year. Jungle Book: Origins was scheduled to open in theatres in late 2016, but studio bosses at Warner Bros. have now delayed the film until October, 2017.
Serkis will make his directorial debut with the ambitious, live-action version of the beloved Rudyard Kipling tale, which will feature the voices of Christian Bale as orphan boy Mowgli's panther friend Bagheera, Cate Blanchett as python Kaa, Benedict Cumberbatch as villainous tiger Shere Khan and Serkis as Baloo the bear. Lone Survivor actor Rohan Chand will portray Mowgli.
Naomie Harris, Tom Hollander, Eddie Marsan and Peter Mullan have also signed on to the project.
The new 2017 date means the film will premiere two years after the planned release of Jon Favreau's rival production for Disney.
His The Jungle Book, starring Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Sir Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken and Lupita Nyong'o, is currently filming and is due for release next year (15).

"It's an OK body, I guess. It functions. I wouldn't say it's particularly remarkable though! There's lots of parts I don't like, my thighs, my mid-section... I'm not gonna complain, I've got thighs and a mid-section, so I'm happy." Newlywed actress Scarlett Johansson, who is frequently named among the world's most beautiful women, doesn't think much of her figure.

A host of stars including Scarlett Johansson and Jonah Hill performed at the 20th anniversary party for media brand Vice on Friday (05Dec14). The Avengers star performed an acoustic cover of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle at the celebration in Brooklyn, New York while Hill took on Drake's track Marvin's Room and even pleaded with the rapper to be his pal, saying, "I thought you and I were friends, Drake. Accept my friendship."
Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Gorillaz's drummer Pauli PSM and The Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence were the house band for the evening, and rocker Andrew W.K. took on the role of host.
A supergroup with members of Megadeth, Testament and Municipal Waste performed Metallica's hit Seek and Destroy, while music producer The-Dream covered M.I.A.'s Paper Planes and Ghostface Killah and Raekwon rapped their classic Daytona 500.
Rapper Lil Wayne ended the night with a four-song set of his own material and told the audience he would be leaving his record label Cash Money "soon" due to disputes with executives, who are frequently delaying the release of his album Tha Carter V.
He said, "Due to technical difficulties, I'm f**ked up in a bad situation, but I will be out of it soon, and I do it for y'all. So put your fives up for Carter V."

Newlywed Scarlett Johansson has opened up about life as a first-time mother, revealing she is finding the experience "exhausting" but "wonderful". The Avengers star welcomed a daughter named Rose in September (14) with her partner Romain Dauriac, and it was recently revealed the couple wed in a secret ceremony in Montana just weeks after the birth.
Johansson has now spoken out about her new family life, insisting she is learning to cope with sleepless nights.
She tells Gala magazine, "It's exhausting in the most wonderful way. I never thought how much sleeping through the night would mean to me. I still lack experience. Right now I'm just trying to manage. You have to first, how should I put it, learn the ropes... She (Rose) smells sweet, totally. I can't quite describe it, but it really makes you euphoric."
Johansson, who was previously married to actor Ryan Reynolds, adds of her current relationship: "I've come to the conclusion for myself that a relationship only functions if you communicate well with your partner. Listen to yourself and what you want, and listen to your partner.
"This is one thing I've learned over the years. And I've gotten better at it. Love can be difficult, but it's absolutely worth the effort."

A clerk who oversaw Scarlett Johansson's secret wedding in Montana has confirmed the actress and longtime partner Romain Dauriac are husband and wife. The couple exchanged vows in rural Philipsburg, Granite County, according to Carol Bohrnsen, who tells The Hollywood Reporter the actress and her then-fiance applied for a marriage licence at Granite County Courthouse.
The document, later filed with the county, shows the wedding took place on 1 October (14).
Bohrnsen says, "They were nice people. I thought Scarlett was very personable. A very sweet personality."
It wasn't the clerk's first brush with celebrity - she also issued actress Kate Bosworth and director Michael Polish with a wedding licence in 2013.
Johansson, who was previously married to actor Ryan Reynolds, accepted Frenchman Dauriac's proposal in September, 2013. The newlyweds welcomed their first child, Rose, in August (14).

Actress Scarlett Johansson and new husband Romain Dauriac walked the red carpet together at the 2014 Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday (01Dec14), just hours it was revealed they had secretly tied the knot on 1 October (14). Johansson, who welcomed their daughter Rose in September (14), lost the Best Actress prize to Julianne Moore.

Actress Scarlett Johansson married boyfriend Romain Dauriac in a secret ceremony earlier this year (14), according to a new report.
The Lost in Translation star wed the French journalist shortly after giving birth to their daughter Rose in September (14), according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.
A source tells the publication the couple exchanged vows at a remote location in the U.S. The source adds, "Scarlett and Romain were married in a very intimate ceremony after the birth of their daughter. They kept the wedding a big secret because they both wanted privacy."
Johansson and Dauriac began dating in 2012 and got engaged in August last year (13). They recently sparked rumours they had tied the knot after being spotted wearing new rings.
The actress was previously married to Ryan Reynolds but they split in 2010, two years after the ceremony, and divorced the following year (11).

Re-teamed with Allen for the comedy "Scoop" as a college newspaper journalist opposite Hugh Jackman

Joined an ensemble cast for the feature adaptation of the bestselling book "He's Just Not That Into You"

Cast as a 17th century servant girl in "Girl with a Pearl Earring"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress

Summary

In the mid-2000s, when gossip stories about twenty-something actresses behaving badly dominated headlines, Scarlett Johansson was nowhere to be found. Johansson was certainly one of the most respected actresses of her generation, having made an impact in a number of roles as intriguing young muses to older men in crisis, but she preferred to limit her dramatic behavior to movie screens. For her physical allure and intelligence, the born-and-bred New Yorker was courted by creative filmmakers like Robert Redford, who gave her a breakout role in "The Horse Whisperer" (1998), the Coen Brothers, Frank Miller and Woody Allen, who cast her in his late-career hits "Match Point" (2005) and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008). Johansson's translucent skin, curvy figure and flair for distant melancholy made her well-suited for period dramas like "Girl with the Pearl Earring" (2003) and "The Other Boleyn Girl" (2008), but the versatile actress also connected with young adult audiences for personifying the complex modern woman in films like "Ghost World" (2001) and "Lost in Translation" (2003). Johansson's number of intellectual pursuits outside of Hollywood also suggested that the poised performer would still be going strong when others her age had long since burnt out.

Began dating in summer 2007; Married Sept. 27, 2008 at a remote wilderness resort outside Vancouver, Canada just four months after announcing their engagement; Announced in December 2010 that they were ending their marriage; Divorce finalized on July 1, 2011

Education

Describing her desire for a show business career, a three-year old Johansson reportedly told her mother that she "had a fire in [her] brain to act."

"I'm the kind of person that doesn't put up with bullsh*t. Does that make me uncommonly mature? I don't know. I think you mature with experiences, and how other people view you and your maturity really depends upon when you have those experiences. I think I was born with a great awareness of my surroundings and an awareness of other people. I know when I really connect with somebody and I know when I feel like I've known somebody before. And I absolutely know what it feels like to meet an old soul, to know an old soul. Maybe years from now, when I'm having my midlife crisis and need to find myself, I'll search deep down inside and find that old soul of mine and dust it off. But for now I'm enjoying getting to know all about my young soul." – Johansson on her perceived maturity to Interview magazine, July 2001

"I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice getting a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work." – Johansson to Movieline's Hollywood Life, Feb. 2004

Johansson was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People for 2004.

"People just don't type cast me. I've played so many different roles, from a high school student, to a wife, to a 17th-century Dutch maid, to trailer trash. For a while, I thought I might get typecast as the bitter, shitty teenager who's always sarcastic, but luckily that was a fear that was never a reality." – Johansson to Empire, March 2005

"I feel so fortunate to be able to work with directors whose movies my mother waited on line for two hours to see. Here I am, 20 years old, getting to work with all these people who are an inspiration to my generation and the generation before." – Johansson quoted to Interview, Nov. 2005

Johansson topped FHM magazine's list of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World" in April 2006.

"I can't stand those articles where people spill their life story. After a while I feel like I know more about them than their best friend does, and that's weird." – Johansson to InStyle magazine, Oct. 2006

In 2007 Johansson was named Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

"I actually started acting because I wanted to be in musicals when I was a little girl. That's where my dream career was going to be when I was 8 years old, like the young Cosette in 'Les Miserables.' Then I started making films and I never ended up doing musical theater. Of course, by the time I turned 13, I kind of buried that part of myself." – Johansson to CNN.com, Aug. 27, 2007

On Sept. 14, 2011, naked photos taken by Johansson with a mobile phone were published on several Web sites. The actress contacted the FBI over the phone hacking. The alleged hacker, Christopher Chaney from Florida, was arrested by the FBI in October 2011. Johansson revealed in the December 2011 issue of Vanity Fair that she had taken the photos three years ago for her then-husband Ryan Reynolds. Chaney was sentenced to ten years in prison.

"I always feel I'm going to wind up as Erich von Stroheim to her Norma Desmond, as her chauffeur, writing her imaginary fan letters so her ego doesn't get deflated. I'll say I directed her in pictures when she was this international goddess, and now I'm just happy to be able to drive her car." – Woody Allen, who directed Johansson in "Match Point" (2005), "Scoop" (2006), and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008), quoted in Vanity Fair, December 2011

"I'm waiting for him to write my 'Citizen Kane.'" – Johansson on Woody Allen, quoted in Vanity Fair, December 2011